Parking Chim on road. Wise?
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As is the general theme of this thread and not exactly surprising, a garage is preferable. But if you haven't got one then you really shouldn't let it stop you buying.
IMHO you are less likely to suffer vandal damage to a Tiv than a Porsche or BMW (that's just the way I see it), so it could be worse! I have found that most vandalising toerags do actually have some respect for a Tiv.
What you must realise is that a TVR will become part of your life and will provide both desperate heartache and great pleasure in equal doses. The highs and lows will both be extremes.
This will happen whether you have a garage or not.
If it isn't vandalism then it will be a knackered V8 ('cos that's my problem at the moment).
Notwithstanding, you will come back for more.
IMHO you are less likely to suffer vandal damage to a Tiv than a Porsche or BMW (that's just the way I see it), so it could be worse! I have found that most vandalising toerags do actually have some respect for a Tiv.
What you must realise is that a TVR will become part of your life and will provide both desperate heartache and great pleasure in equal doses. The highs and lows will both be extremes.
This will happen whether you have a garage or not.
If it isn't vandalism then it will be a knackered V8 ('cos that's my problem at the moment).
Notwithstanding, you will come back for more.
why are u letting the possibility of malicious damage prevent you from owning a TVR?? If you take that route, they have won already...
Buy one, make it waterproof if it isn`t already, park it in W1/EC1/SW1 or wherever in central london u are from.
it will need tinkering about every so often but that comes part and parcel...
for £15-25 k nothing else comes close...
Buy one, make it waterproof if it isn`t already, park it in W1/EC1/SW1 or wherever in central london u are from.
it will need tinkering about every so often but that comes part and parcel...
for £15-25 k nothing else comes close...
Would like to add that if your road is a busy one(through road), and has a pub or some shops nearby and lots of pedestrians use your road then i can only see it being more prone to little scrotes from the pub on the way home doing something, bored kids after school you know what they can be like. And that can be in any Village,Town or City.
If its a quiet side road then your car is more prone to being lifted, which being a TVR is less likely ( no Market for stolen Tivs).
All IMO of course.
Hope you get one, i am sure u wont regret it.
Sometimes you've just gotta throug all them worries out the window, otherwise you wouldnt do Firk all worrying about ifs and Buts.
BB
If its a quiet side road then your car is more prone to being lifted, which being a TVR is less likely ( no Market for stolen Tivs).
All IMO of course.
Hope you get one, i am sure u wont regret it.
Sometimes you've just gotta throug all them worries out the window, otherwise you wouldnt do Firk all worrying about ifs and Buts.
BB
Mine is parked in a private car park (with marked out parking spaces) but I'm begining to think it would be better parked in the street because it keeps getting loads of scratches on it. I am 99% sure it is my neighbour doing it when she gets in her car. I'm sure she scrapes her fat a*se against it and swings her handbag into it but until I see her doing it I can't prove it. She scraped her baby car seat right along my other car but again I couldn't prove it. Her little boy runs up and down beside the car and rubs his hands all over it and she doesn't say a word to him. I've tried parking further away from her but I have a 6ft brick wall on the other side of my space so I can only move over so far. I don't think she is jealous, just completely inconsiderate and careless. When she first moved into her house me and my partner made an effort to be friendly but she didn't want to know so it's a waste of time asking her politely to take care when she's near the car as that would just cause a row (she has had rows with most of the other neighbours already!!)so all I can do is let the scratches build up until I actually see her doing it, then god help her!!
tbag said: Mine is parked in a private car park (with marked out parking spaces) but I'm begining to think it would be better parked in the street because it keeps getting loads of scratches on it. I am 99% sure it is my neighbour doing it when she gets in her car. I'm sure she scrapes her fat a*se against it and swings her handbag into it but until I see her doing it I can't prove it. She scraped her baby car seat right along my other car but again I couldn't prove it. Her little boy runs up and down beside the car and rubs his hands all over it and she doesn't say a word to him. I've tried parking further away from her but I have a 6ft brick wall on the other side of my space so I can only move over so far. I don't think she is jealous, just completely inconsiderate and careless. When she first moved into her house me and my partner made an effort to be friendly but she didn't want to know so it's a waste of time asking her politely to take care when she's near the car as that would just cause a row (she has had rows with most of the other neighbours already!!)so all I can do is let the scratches build up until I actually see her doing it, then god help her!!
I know it can be a pain, but a temporary measure would be to put a car cover on the Chim when you park up? A lightweight elasticated one would solve pretty much all your probs...
tamago said:
tbag said: Mine is parked in a private car park (with marked out parking spaces) but I'm begining to think it would be better parked in the street because it keeps getting loads of scratches on it. I am 99% sure it is my neighbour doing it when she gets in her car. I'm sure she scrapes her fat a*se against it and swings her handbag into it but until I see her doing it I can't prove it. She scraped her baby car seat right along my other car but again I couldn't prove it. Her little boy runs up and down beside the car and rubs his hands all over it and she doesn't say a word to him. I've tried parking further away from her but I have a 6ft brick wall on the other side of my space so I can only move over so far. I don't think she is jealous, just completely inconsiderate and careless. When she first moved into her house me and my partner made an effort to be friendly but she didn't want to know so it's a waste of time asking her politely to take care when she's near the car as that would just cause a row (she has had rows with most of the other neighbours already!!)so all I can do is let the scratches build up until I actually see her doing it, then god help her!!
I know it can be a pain, but a temporary measure would be to put a car cover on the Chim when you park up? A lightweight elasticated one would solve pretty much all your probs...
i had a similar problem, parking between 2 cars and decided to "borrow" an unused space with no cars either side. so far, for the last year, not been a problem.
see if you can speak to a neighbour and use another space
I would just like to pay tribute to the people on this forum. I started this thread a year ago (10 Jan '02) when I was heading with wide-eyes towards first TVR ownership and needed some help 
Like many, I avidly read the entire sight and learnt so much about TVRs in the process 
Sadly, I still don't have a TVR as my job at the time changed (I went abroad)
And I stopped reading the site for a year as the prospect of a TVR receded.
Well I am coming back, and once again avidly reading the site to update myself. To my *immense* surprise, my original thread is still going and the answers in it are both helpful and very relevant.
Thanks you to you all. This is credit to this great community. It is worth buying a TVR just to be amongst you guys
(The broad grin, that I hear so much about, helps too of course 
).
Like many, I avidly read the entire sight and learnt so much about TVRs in the process Sadly, I still don't have a TVR as my job at the time changed (I went abroad)
And I stopped reading the site for a year as the prospect of a TVR receded. Well I am coming back, and once again avidly reading the site to update myself. To my *immense* surprise, my original thread is still going and the answers in it are both helpful and very relevant.
Thanks you to you all. This is credit to this great community. It is worth buying a TVR just to be amongst you guys
(The broad grin, that I hear so much about, helps too of course ). Gassing Station | Chimaera | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff